Archive - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

The Electric Slide

The history, 99% decline, and future of the Electric Stack with Sam D'Amico

Aug 26, 2025

Riding the Leopard

You are here to experience, or: why differentiation is a moral obligation.

May 13

Excel Never Dies

The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies

Mar 8, 2021

The Great Online Game

How to Win the Internet

May 10, 2021

Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce

The Quiet Chinese Quindecacorn America’s Gen Z Shoppers Are #Addicted To

May 17, 2021

a16z: The Power Brokers

a16k word essay on a16z on the day of a15b fundraise

Jan 9

Own the Internet

A Bull Case for Ethereum

May 24, 2021

Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind

A Co-Written Essay with Evan Beard

Jan 16

Attention is All You Need

OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugins and the emergence of an Apex Aggregator

Mar 27, 2023

Anduril: Acquiring Prime

Analyzing Anduril's M&A Strategy and the Future of Defense

Oct 3, 2023

To 2023 and Beyond

Dec 19, 2022

World Models: Computing the Uncomputable

A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim De Witte

Mar 19

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